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Re: Leap second tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Mon Jan 5 15:44:46 2009
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:52:54 -0800
In-Reply-To: <49623D06.2070702@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 05/01/2009 6:01, "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
[...]
> But seriously. Leap seconds occur every couple of years, either on July
> 30th and Dec 31. Sometimes both. And sometimes every consecutive year f=
or
> a couple of years on the run.
It's theoretically possible for leap seconds to be introduced at the end of
March and September. It's never happened but it might, so I suppose softwar=
e
should allow for the possibility.
Regards,
Leo
